What does a Green victory in a Northern-English by-election have to do with Scotland’s energy agenda? It shows the diff btwn constitutional radicalism & (understandable) class revolt. Indy is a bigger prize for ecological politics. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
Major update of my Substack archive of my @ScotNational column over last few months—free to access. Freud, AI, cinema (via Oscars), Trumpism/Farageism, all with an Indy-mindedness about them… Enjoy, share! patkane.substack.com/s/pk-in-the-...
Lyrics video for our new @HueAndCry single, Stronger (also here open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger). Forthcoming album is Everybody (preorder here slinky.to/EverybodyHue...). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful….Please share and go there! PK x
Forget Oedipus & being envious of various appendages…Freud’s interest in how our darker emotions manifest themselves is acutely relevant to our age of authoritarianism, frustration and resentment. Neuroscience gives him an update too. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/comment/2587...
Great news report from @YahooNews on our new @hueandcry single Stronger (& coming LP Everybody) uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-80s... details in posts below! 🚀🤖
The good people behind the Tom Nairn conference are setting up an events series called “Make Hope Possible” (after Raymond Williams quote). Very much worth supporting - first talk here with @CarolineLucas and @AdamRamsay. Signs of life… makehopepossible.org/tickets/
Great news report from @YahooNews on our new @hueandcry single Stronger (& coming LP Everybody) uk.news.yahoo.com/scottish-80s... details in posts below! 🚀🤖
My @scotnational column this week investigates whether AI spy-cams—detecting you using your moby while driving—are the thin end of a new surveillance regime. Or maybe a good use of the tech… www.thenational.scot/politics/258... Plus: a side-bar menshie for the new @hueandcry record! Thank u!
Big week for us at @hueandcry—release of our first single, ‘Stronger’, from forthcoming album, ‘Everybody’ (go here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... for pre-order). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful… Play single here: open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger
Big week for us at @hueandcry—release of our first single, ‘Stronger’, from forthcoming album, ‘Everybody’ (go here slinky.to/EverybodyHue... for pre-order). It’s electronic, anthemic, mega-hearted and hopeful… Play single here: open.spotify.com/album/4EsZw5... & here slinky.to/Stronger
New Alternative Weekiy out mailchi.mp/2951056b57a9... Editorial on reckoning with AI. Plus: Zurich’s coops solving Europe’s housing crisis; carbon overshoot likely, climate storytelling mobilises youth. From www.spring.site: wind-wealth coming, Glasgow supperclubs here. RT!
The cancellation of a “hyperscale” data centre in Edinburgh is a triumph for campaigners—& a pause button for those of us interested in AI. If used for liberating humans into a post-work world, could we then agree how best to power it? My @ScotNational col thenational.scot/news/25834578.…
New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d76a2d000dc2... Our editorial nails it: “Fascism won’t win”. Also: amazing mutual aid in Minnesota, & a new era for US activism; UK govt’s climate gloom revealed; why tears aren’t to be trusted—& more. + News from www.spring.site Share!
Reform’s Lord Offord (aka Big Jock) made a terrible bid to harness @deaconbluemusic’s song Dignity to his far-right cause. But he’s in a long tradition of politicians hijacking pop songs to juice up their campaigns—Trump preeminently. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
New Alternative Weekly newsletter mailchi.mp/3ddee2991714... Applying advanced democracy, emotional literacy and youthful leadership to the climate crisis; Scottish community wealth building; & what’s “street epistemology”? Also www.spring.site stuff. Enjoy & please share
I’ve watched 5 of the 10 for “Best Picture” @TheAcademy Oscars. They exemplify the basic power of great films, as defined by Deleuze: “The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world”. What does Gilles mean? Read on at my @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2579...
Four Alternative Weekly reports on our SOLD-OUT #PowerShift “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest last Sunday—as well as clean energy biz beating Trump; effectively tackling dis/misinformation; blueprints for impact crowdfunding—and much more. Please sign up and share! mailchi.mp/6efdd9474b2a...
We had a SELL-OUT gig for #PowerShift at Celtic Connections this Sunday—a whirl of song, improvisation, facilitation, poetry and expertise, around the topic of communities and renewables. Let’s take it forward here: www.spring.site/powershift
For digital idealists, Grok’s “undressing” AI software is dispiriting. But if we reconfirm our human community—like we suggest at Sunday’s @ccfest #PowerShift event [https://www.spring.site]—can we put this computation to better use? My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/news/2577342...
Just a few tickets left for our #PowerShift event at @CCfest / Celtic Connections, tomorrow 3pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... see you there! 💨💨💨
LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare 2b idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…
LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare 2b idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…
Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...
Renewable energy and community control: discussion with @patkane.bsky.social -very interesting new dimension at Celtic Connections.
Assa, we’d love to see you there! Bring pals! spring.site/blog/power-s...
Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...
My @scotnational col today is about Scotland facing the oligarchs—& how communities generating their own energy defy the gangsters’ diktat www.thenational.scot/politics/257... Our #PowerShift event at @ccfest next Sunday deep dives into all this. For more, & tickets: spring.site
Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...
